She focuses on representing global financial institutions and corporations in mergers and acquisitions litigation and transactional disputes, securities litigation, and other complex commercial disputes, including bankruptcy and antitrust actions. She also has experience counseling multinational corporations in connection with both internal and regulatory investigations.

Most recently, Mallory was named a “Rising Star” by the New York Law Journal and the Euromoney Legal Media Group.In 2018 and 2019, Mallory was named to the Benchmark Litigation 40 & Under Hot List, and in each of 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 Mallory was recognized by TheLegal 500 as a “Next Generation Lawyer” for M&A Litigation Defense.

Experience

M&A Litigation

Represent corporates in M&A transactions on both the buy-side and sell-side, as well as financial institutions advising on M&A transactions, including in shareholder class actions, busted deals, post-transaction disputes, and regulatory inquiries:

A large private equity oil & gas investor in midstream assets in a dispute with LLC co-owners

Raytheon in the United Technologies merger

Goldman Sachs in litigation arising out of the sale of Saks Fifth Avenue

An midstream oil & gas company in a post-closing earnout dispute

LyondellBasell in the A. Schulman acquisition

Liberty Global in connection with litigation arising out of the Liberty Broadband acquisition of Charter Communications

Capital Square Partners in the Aegis/Startek acquisition

CVS in the Aetna acquisition

Altice in the Cablevision acquisition

Dassault in the Exa acquisition

WebMD Health Corporation in its acquisition by Internet Brands, a portfolio company of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR)

Pall in its acquisition by Danaher

Daimler AG in connection with various Chrysler-related post-demerger litigations and disputes

Huntsman Corp. in a merger dispute with Hexion Chemicals Corp.

Merrill Lynch in connection with shareholder litigation arising out of its merger with Bank of America

BCE Inc. against former subsidiary of Teleglobe Inc.

Securities-Related Litigation

Altice USA and related entities and individuals in securities litigation arising out of IPO

Orbital ATK in securities litigation arising out of financial restatement

Underwriting syndicates, including clients such as Bank of America, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and dozens of others, in separate securities class actions arising out of recent stock offerings of companies such as ZTO Express and Arconic

Countrywide and related entities in ongoing institutional RMBS purchaser actions filed in state and federal courts across the United States by institutional plaintiffs such as federal home loan banks, mutual and hedge funds, insurance companies and regional banks

Barclays in the FHLBS RMBS litigation

Countrywide with respect to litigation concerning CDOs

Todd Newman, former portfolio manager at Diamondback Capital, in connection with the reversal of his insider trading conviction

White-Collar and Regulatory Investigations

A major international financial institution in an internal investigation into mutual fund investment irregularities at a Mexican subsidiary, including potential insider trading and related internal governance issues

An international engineering and construction company in a criminal investigation by the United States Department of Justice for possible FCPA violations

Former executives of the South American subsidiary of a multinational company in connection with an FCPA investigation and a potential criminal investigation by local authorities

Employee of foreign automotive manufacturer in connection with investigation by U.S. authorities into potential regulatory, criminal, and antitrust violations

Antitrust Litigation

A defense intelligence contractor in a no-poach antitrust class action

A financial institution in the Mexican Government Bonds antitrust class action

A financial institution in the ISDAFIX antitrust class action

A financial institution in a class action asserting violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and antitrust laws related to Yen LIBOR and TIBOR

A major European cargo airline in a criminal price-fixing cartel investigation and the follow-on federal class action lawsuit and related opt-out actions alleging a conspiracy to fix the prices of air cargo

Additional Complex Commercial Experience

Citigroup in a class action concerning purported misconduct in Mexico

Shorenstein Properties in connection with a commercial property dispute

Deutsche Bank in a foreclosure litigation in connection with a distressed hotel property